Date: Sat, 19 Dec 2009 13:56:14 +0100 From: Marius Strobl <marius@alchemy.franken.de> To: Anton Shterenlikht <mexas@bristol.ac.uk> Cc: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Solved: Re: trouble installing to sun blade 1500 Message-ID: <20091219125614.GV74529@alchemy.franken.de> In-Reply-To: <20091218133634.GA89155@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> References: <20091201165752.GA12095@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> <20091201215130.GA64974@alchemy.franken.de> <20091202124137.GA20168@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> <20091202125915.GA20276@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> <20091202192134.GA6562@alchemy.franken.de> <20091203131609.GA86854@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> <20091203141711.GA43641@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> <20091206161815.GA70140@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> <20091207155713.GF6562@alchemy.franken.de> <20091218133634.GA89155@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk>
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On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 01:36:34PM +0000, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: > On Mon, Dec 07, 2009 at 04:57:13PM +0100, Marius Strobl wrote: > > > > > > If I can get nowhere with this card, any advice for > > > a card I could buy for Sun Blade 1500 (red or silver)? > > > > Sun PGX64 would be a good choice as they even allow to > > use accelerated X with decent resolution (which is > > unlikely to ever work with most of the XVR cards as > > Sun didn't open source their drivers nor release the > > necessary documentation). > > Marius, thank you. I bought on of those (15 pounds, ebay) > and it seems to work ok in the text mode. > I haven't yet built X successfully, still some errors > in devel/gobject-intospection You'll likely want to use a more lightweight window manager than GNOME like for example windowmaker on a Blade 1500 anyway. > > Could you also recommend a wireless network card > for blade 1500? Some time ago ath(4) was fixed to work on sparc64 but I'm not aware of its current state. Marius
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